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AmEmFC
Mercy me, the night is long.
AmFEbBbC
Take my pen, to write you this song.
DmGBbC
Lord: is it harder to carry on,
BbC
or to know when you are done?
AmEmFC
All my life, I've felt as though
AmFEbBbCDm
I'm inside a beautiful memory,
G
Replaying
BbCBbF
with the sound turned down low.
CFGC
Long-life, show your face.
EmAmBbC
Slow-heart, curb your taste.
CFGC
Smoke me out of my hiding place.
EmAmBbC
Long-life, state your case.
AmEmFC
What in the world are we waiting for—
AmFEbBbC
building glowing cities along the shore,
DmG
where the wind batters in,
BbCBbBb
baiting my kin like a matador?
AmEmFC
So much value, placed upon
AmFEbBbC
what lies just beyond our plans:
DmG
waving my handkerchief,
BbCBbC
running along, till the end of the sand.
CFGC
Long-life, speak your name.
EmAmBbC
I'm so tired of the guessing game.
CF
But, something is moving,
GC
just out of frame:
EmAm
Slow-heart,
BbC
brace and aim.
AmEmFC
Breaching slowly, across the sea,
AmF
one mast—
EbBbC
a flash, like the stinger of a bee—
DmG
to take you away,
BbCBbC
a swarming fleet is gonna take you
from me.
AmEmFC
The universe is getting loose:
AmFEb
sodden spread,
BbC
from some leaden disuse,
DmG
rushing, unhinged,
BbC
toward diminishing lights,
BbC
like a headless caboose.
CF
I'll wait for you,
GC
alongside the ocean,
EmAm
and make do
BbC
with my no-skin.
CF
But then, Long-life,
GC
will you let me in?
EmAm
And then, Slow-heart,
BbC
are you gonna know him?
CFGC
Long-life, speak your name.
EmAmBbC
I wait, while I decry the wait.
CFGC
And when I die, may I relate:
EmAmBbC
Slow heart, congregate.
Am, Em, F, CAm, F, Eb, Bb, CDm, G, Bb, CBbCAmEmFC
To leave your home, and your family,
AmFEbBbC
for some distortion of property?
DmG
Well, darling, I can't go.
BbC
But you may stay
BbC
here, with me.
Am